Mixer



U. R. MOHR.

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MIXER.

Patented Nov. 27,1894.

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ULRIOK R. MOHR, OF ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES B. MORGAN, OF DAVENPORT, IOWA.

MIXER.

YrBPECIFIC'ATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 530,051 dated November 27, 1894. Application filed June 11,1894. Serial No. 514,162. (No modeLl To aZZ whom it may concern: shaft 0, and h is a handle projecting from Be it known that I, ULRICK R. MOHR,acitlthe said pulley, so that the machine may be zen of the United States, residing at Rock driven by hand or by power. The shafts O 55 Island, in the county of Rock Island and State and G are operatively connected together by of Illinois, have invented certain new and useany approved driving mechanism. Toothed ful Improvements in Mixers; and Ido hereby wheels, a belt and belt pulleys, a drive chain declare the following to be a full, clear, and and chain wheels, or frictional drive wheels exactdescription of the invention, such as will may be used, but the preferred driving mech- 6o enable others skilled in the art to which it apanism is that shown in the drawings. This IO pertains to make and use the same. consists of a friction wheel I secured on the This invention relates to machines for mixshaft 0, A friction wheel I secured on the ing paste, paint and other similar materials; shaft G, and an intermediate friction wheel i and it consists in the novel construction and connecting the wheels I and I. The friction 65 combination of the parts hereinafter fully de- Wheel 2' is journaled on a pin j projecting from. I5 scribed and claimed. a sliding bracket J. The bracket J is pro- In the drawings: Figure l is a longitudinal vided with elongated holesj which slide upon section through the mixer; and Fig. 2 is an the bolts k, which secure the bracket to the end View of the mixer. end of the tank. 70

Ais a frame which rests on the ground, and M is a lever pivoted on the pin m, projectsupports a mixing tank B havinga semi-cying from the bracket m which is secured to lindrical bottom. the frame.

O is a shaft journaled in bearings csecured N is a rod pivoted to the bracket J by the to the ends of the tank, and c are two boaters pin n, and to the lever M by the pin n. 75 secured upon the said shaft inside the tank. When the lever M is raised, as shown by the The tank is provided with an outlet D at one dotted lines in Fig. 2, the Wheel 7; is pushed end, and is provided with any approved reguback out of contact with the wheels I and I. lating device, such as the slide d, for letting O is a steam pipe provided with branches out the contents of the tank. Each beater c 0 on the under side of the tank, and O are 80 preferably consists of arms 3 secured on the valves for regulating the admission of steam o shaft 0, and provided with spirally arranged into the tank. A thermometer and a water crosspieces 4 secured to their ends. The two gage of any approved construction are used heaters are arranged at right angles to each to indicate the condition of the contents of other, and the crosspieces agitate the matethe tank. 8 5 rial in the tank, scrape the bottom of the tank, In making paste, water is placed in the tank,

5 and Work the material endwise toward the and flour is placed in the hopper. The agioutlet D. tators and boaters are then revolved, and the E is the lid of the tank, hinged to the frame flour which falls through the sieve into the on one side by thehinges e, and provided water is mixed therewith, and all lumps are 0 with books 6', or other equivalent fastening prevented. The steam is then let into the devices, on the other side, for securing it in tank and the paste is cooked thereby, and reposition. moved from time to timethrough the outlet F is a hopper secured to the top of the lid D. When sufficient flour has been added to E, and f is a sieve arranged between the hopthe Water, the friction wheel 71 is pushed back 9 5 per and the tank. so that the agitator in the hopper is no longer 5 F is aslide un'derthe sieve, for controlling revolved. The lid can then be raised to per- .the passage of material through the aperture mit the paste to cool without stopping the f into the tank. beater shaft in the tank. G is a shaft journaled in the bearings 9 se- When the mixer is used forpaint, the steam rco cured to the ends of the hopper. pipes are not required. When used for mix- G are arms secured on the shaft G inside ing or blending several kinds of paint, a sethe hopper, for agitating its contents. ries of hoppers can be arranged, one behind H is a belt pulley secured on the end of the the other, on the lid of the mixer. The separate colors are then placed in the diiterent' hoppers and are fed into the tank simultaneously and mixed together therein by the heaters.

What I claim is-- 1. In a mixer, the combination, with the tank B having a semi-cylindrical bottom, and the two boaters journaled inside the tank and arranged at rightangles to each other, each beater consisting of two spirally-arranged crosspieces, operating to scrape the bottom of the tank, and arms supporting the said crosspieces; of the hopper secured to the lid of the tank, the agitators journaled in the hopper,

driving mechanism for resolving the boaters and agitators simultaneously, a sieve forming the bottom of the hopper, a regulating slide under the sieve and between it and the tank, and steam pipe connections for cooking the contents of the tank, substantially as set 20 ULRIGK R. MOHR.

Witnesses:

J. B. MORGAN, E. F. GUY. 

